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I rediscovered my love of J-Rock band Luna Sea and have been bingeing on their stuff. The great thing about listening to songs in a language you don't know is that you're not confronted by the fact that 95% of lyrics are utter tosh and you can instead just focus on the music*.

* which I guess is also part of why I like incomprehensible death/black metal growling too

I stumbled upon Electric Masadaa the other day, another one of John Zorn's projects. Due to to its supergroup character only a couple of live albums exist but the sound quality is so good, you wouldn't even notice if it wasn't for the audience between tracks. The one I have is appropriately titled At the Mountains of Madness and it's almost 160 minutes long.
What does it sound like? Well, it's really difficult to put into words but imagine Miles David was to record Bitches Brew today and it wouldn't sound very different. It's really rather incredible. Just listen to this: